De-industrialization, primate city, and income inequality after socialism…
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De-industrialization, primate city, and income inequality after socialism…
proseontherocks.substack.com/p/de-industr...
De-industrialization, primate city, and income inequality after socialism…
proseontherocks.substack.com/p/de-industr...
📢 Call for Papers: 16th Annual Meeting of the Armenian Economic Association (AEA) 2026
Looking to present your research at a high-level, general-interest economics conference?
Funding: Limited travel grants available
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“That’s not how macroeconomic development works.”
Across small former socialist economies, most of their economic output and population are concentrated in the sprawling capital cities. New substack⤵️
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“That’s not how macroeconomic development works.”
Across small former socialist economies, most of their economic output and population are concentrated in the sprawling capital cities. New substack⤵️
proseontherocks.substack.com/p/de-industr...
What de-industrialization looks like in the small post-socialist economies... + rising income #inequality....
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What does Adam Smith have to do with macroeconomic development and income inequality in small post-socialist economies?
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What does Adam Smith have to do with macroeconomic development and income inequality in small post-socialist economies?
Read more in ‘De-industrialization, primate city, and income inequality after socialism…’ proseontherocks.substack.com/p/de-industr...
New Substack (plz subscribe & share): Despite their World Bank’s upper-middle-income classification, the small open post-socialist economies do not present an obvious story of sustainable economic growth and prosperity.
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New Substack (plz subscribe & share): Despite their World Bank’s upper-middle-income classification, the small open post-socialist economies do not present an obvious story of sustainable economic growth and prosperity.
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Read “that one” first and then the other or read both at once?
That is the question…:)
Congrats @brankomilan.bsky.social !
"...the concern with poverty works like an anesthetic to the bad conscience of the many."
New post: “The printing press, identity, and the formation of diaspora in early modernity - my review of Sebouh Aslanian's book”
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In response, to a rightful challenge on my recent '#AI at universities' essay, the short answer can be "use it to learn but not to substitute for your own work"...
The rest is in here⤵️
Comparative economics is an incredibly important subject that opens up a whole new world in understanding the macroeconomic and public policies dynamics as well as varying dimensions of complex social-cultural structures.
More on that via @brankomilan.bsky.social
Snow day = carpets day to neighbors envy:-)
NEW - just published a chapter by Dmitry Pozhidaev in the @oxunipress.bsky.social Handbook of Post-Socialist Economies (that I'm editing)! The chapter covers #economic #history of the #Soviet Union 1917-1953 -- an incredibly interesting & informed analytical piece!
READ: doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Several people have asked me for my recent syllabus. Here it is.
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The title of this class is "From Pareto to the Kuznets waves", but it does cover (in one session), classical writers too.
NEW - just published a chapter by Dmitry Pozhidaev in the @oxunipress.bsky.social Handbook of Post-Socialist Economies (that I'm editing)! The chapter covers #economic #history of the #Soviet Union 1917-1953 -- an incredibly interesting & informed analytical piece!
READ: doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Snow day = carpets day to neighbors envy:-)
Comparative economics is an incredibly important subject that opens up a whole new world in understanding the macroeconomic and public policies dynamics as well as varying dimensions of complex social-cultural structures.
More on that via @brankomilan.bsky.social
"The true value and game changing AI-adoption practice, instead, will come from universities looking back into their origins..." new substack
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In response, to a rightful challenge on my recent '#AI at universities' essay, the short answer can be "use it to learn but not to substitute for your own work"...
The rest is in here⤵️
New post is up: a mix of thoughts on AI and education
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
"The true value and game changing AI-adoption practice, instead, will come from universities looking back into their origins..." new substack
proseontherocks.substack.com/p/for-univer...
New post is up: a mix of thoughts on AI and education
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
IN PRINT!!!!! Our paper with Samar Issa on the Lebanese #diaspora is now available in print in the first 2026 issue of the Review of Development Economics!
doi.org/10.1111/rode...
Much pessimism about the economics profession. This year's #ASSA2026 reminded of that + see a reflection by @soumayakeynes.ft.com in @financialtimes.com [in comments]. But WHY?
The answer is multidimensional.
My Substack (read, like, subscribe, share):
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“Publish or vanish” indeed - been receiving a lot of clearly AI generated papers for review past few months … preserving even ChatGPT formats (bold font subtitles etc) 🤷♂️
and of course the link to @soumayakeynes.ft.com 's article
www.ft.com/content/eb08...